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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
An Ingenious Doll.

Almost charming feature of the study.
of dolls in all lands is the satisfaction
which little girls take in dressing up q.
stick, a clothes-pin, a bundle of rags, or
some other insignificant object, end
calling it doll. There are many
things about these little motherly
creatures to admire, but none more
than their makeshifts at happiness, the
ways in which they set themselves to
work in childhood to be pleased with
the semblance when the reality is de-
MED. :
To illustrates: Once upon time
there was an old Innuit Eskimo) fish
erman who thought that seals would
come into his net if he would make a.
float of driftwood in the image of a
seal. This he did. One day he missed
his float and looked everywhere, but
could not find it. At last he spied his
little daughter playing with an unusu-
ally large doll, and on examining it,
found that she had made doll of his
float Two large beads served for eyes,
string of beads for necklace, and
some shells took the place Of earrings.
For garment she had utilized a large
strip of brown cotton cloth procured
from the traders. Frequently bits Of
wood take the place of dolls and are
wrapped in mats or fur.--Wide AaDake.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
LOST AND FOUND.


On, Tommy was losti He wns stolen away
such a terrible rumpus such dreadful dismay !
"Good graciousw "Dear met II declare for
itl" "La!"
Cried grandpa and grandma, papa and mamma
They hunted him far, and they hunted him
near; f.tf 'a ..f a.U.l .iI
They looked in the cisterns, in panicky fear;
They looked in the wardrobe and under the
bed,
And tilted the pillows, and lifted the spread.
They hunted him high and they hunted him
low;
They looked in the cellar, in asonized woe;
They searched through tho garrett with lamps
held nloof;
They climbed through the slsylight and looked
on the roof.
But they found no small boy. Oh, he'd come to
some harm!
And they mournfully started to spread the
alarm
When they happened to think that they might
as well see
II he wasn't where he was quite likely to be.
And so to the pantry they brcathlcssiy went;
And there, with o smile that was calm and con-
tent, .ra Uut NJ. .ru
Perchcd upon the shelf with the cake high and
With fat ginger snap and o large piece Of
With the crumbs Of feast scattered widely
around
There sat the small person, quite safe and quite
swell, wenr' "Did you everi" "Thanls good
ness.' "Hurrah' .t.Il ts
Cried grandpa and grandma, and papa and
Mamma. iIlH
Emma A. Opper. In Golden Days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
For Thoughtful Con nsideration.

DR.. George Woods, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
is authority for the statement that
seventy-fve cents worth of iron ore
made into bar iron is worth $5, horse
shoes $1O.50. table knives $3.50, fine
needles $4,000. shirt buttons $29, 480.
watch springs 100000, hair springs
100000. pallet arbors S2,577.595.
There is much, very much, in the above
estimate that should receive the atten-
tion and consideration of our capital-
lists. Said John S. Clarke. of Boston, in
an address before the Franklin Institute
of Philadelphia in 1881; II hold in my
hand piece of steel. Its va.Mc is yer-
haps five cents. And yet it may be
said to represent hardly more than so
much raw material. In this hand |
hold another piece Of steel of similar
quality, but less quantity, and yet this
latter has a value Of 800. What makes
this difference in valuep Simply this,
that human thought has been playing,
as it were, about this latter piece Of
steel, and has made 1t the basis upon
which it has concreted itself so that we
have an instrument Of great practical
use, q micrometer caliper, mainly tho
product Of thought rs expressed bJ
skilled labor. '--BostOn Budget. cY ea
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
DUEL WITHOUT BLOOD.
A Gritty Doctors Revenge on an Arrogant
Army OHicer.

army OmVufs
In "Dueling Days in the Army" re-
Gently published in London, is this story
of the way in which n clever man evaded
a duel, and yet punished the person who
had insultsd him: While Dr.. Young.
an officer belonging to the Woolwich
garrison, was escorting some ladies up
the river to Vauxhall, about the year
1920, he played them some tunes on a
flute. Behind them was boat in which
were several officers, rowing for the same
goal, and rs these soon came alongside
the one the doctor and his party were
in, he ceased playing. One Of the of
ficcrs Immediately asked why he did SO.
"For the same reason began" an
swered DR.. Young, "to please myself.
The reply to this was an order to con-
tinue playing, ending with threat
that If he did not do so he (the officcr)
would toss tho doctor into the Thames.
DR.. Young complied with the insolent
demand. and played oil the way up the
river to Vauxhall. During the evening,
however, the doctor observed the officer
who had been so musically inclined by
himself in one of the walks. when he
went up to him and with great GOODNESS
said: lit was, sir, to avoid interrupt
ing the harmony of either my company
or.yours that I complied with your ar
rogant demand, but that you may learn
courage is to be found under a black
coat as we'll as under red one, expect
you will meet me tomorrow morning
at certain place without any second,
the quarrel being entirely between our
selves" The doctor further covenanted
that the affair should be decided by
swords, to all of which conditions the
officer readily agreed. The parties met
the following morning, as had been ar
ranged, but the moment the officer had
taken his ground and drawn his sword
the doctor pulled out q horse pistol and
presented it at him. "What!' ex-
claimed the officer in alright, "do you
mean to assassinate mep" "No," re-
piled the doctor, "but you shall in
stantly put on your sword and dance a
minuet, otherwise you are dead man. "
The other at this began to swear at his
opponent, rs well as to VOW he would
do nothing of the kind; but the doctor
was resolute, giving the officer clearly
to undcrsta nd that, if he did not begin
to dance before he (Young) counted
thirty, the threat would be carried into
effect. In slow time the doctor began
to count lone, two, three" and by the
time he had got up to "ten" the sword
was returned into its sheath, and before
he had counted "twenty" the officer
was going through q minuet as stately
as man could do that had Il loaded
pistol leveled within few feet of his
head. After quarter of an hours s
practice the muzzle of the pistol was
lowered, the holder of it saying as il
fell: "That will do. sir; we are now
quits. You forced me to play against
my will, and l have compelled you tt
dance against yours. Being now on {
level will give you whatever satisfac
ton you require. The next affair will
of course, be with seconds. You know
where to find me. Good morning
The doctor, how ever, heard no more o
the matter.-London Telegram.
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14

ooning to the inn had given him any
thing. ..r.
III am very sorry, sir" he began,
humbly; but Herr Muller was unfortu-
nately in the worst of tempers that
morning, and before Paolo could divine
his attention he had seized Jocko firmly
by the neck, and carried him into the
house.
"Now be off with your he called
back, roughly. "And don't come back
without some money. When you pay
me what you owe me, I'll let you have
your monkey, and not before"
4 In another minute poor Jocko was
locked up securely in the cellar, while
his master walked slowly away In great
despair.
How could he earn money enough to
pay the landlord without Jocko's aidp
Who would listen to his squeaky tin
whistle when Jocko was not there to
dance and bow, and make the oldest OF
grimaces, and cut the queerest of ca
persp
In the meanwhile, the captive sat
upon a barrel in the cellar, his comicali
little face puckered up sadly, and his
tail down Imply, in melancholy fash
ion. .iH
Presently servant came down to
draw some wine; an operation which
the monkey watched with great inter-
est. Then another man brought q can,
and filled it with beer from q large
cask in the corner, after which Jocko's
spirits rose wonderfully, for it becamel
apparent to him that there was mis-
chief for an intelligent monkey to do
even in cellar. Could he turn the
taps of the barrelsp Could hep Splash!l
splash! splash! all around the cellar!
Oh! what glorious fun!
But Herr Muller thought differently
when he came down and found all the
taps turned, and his precious wine and
beer pouring down upon the floor,
while Jocko danced about on the tops
of the barrels, frantic with delight.
Truly it was a sight for a landlord!
"Here, Hans! Peter Lisbethr' shouted
Herr Muller, rushing from tap to tap.
All! the cellar door was left open.
What a piece of fortune for Jocko! In
the twinkling of an eye he had darted
up the steps, across the passage, and
out of the door.
! His sharp eyes quickly caught sight
OF disconsolate little figure in the dis
tance, and very soon, who so happy as
Paolo and naughty Jocko, as they
trudged away into the country as fast
as their legs could carry thcmp-Liltle
| Folks.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14

does not apply to both Mr.. Smith and
Mr.. Halstead, but to The latter who
alone is the man who has announced
that he never got the letter.
But the second sentence contains the
more important part Of the statement.
It virtually admits the gist Of the al-
legged letter that the nomination Of
Blaine is not the sine qua non. This
time three years ago Mr.. Reid would
not tolerate any other possibility but
the nomination of Blaine. But now
that his wife has been mustered in
among the daughters-in-law OF Ohio
his own Ohio instinct draws him
toward John Sherman Of Mansfield, U.
No wonder James G. Blaine stops
over in Chicago to tone up his system
with po-phosphates.- Chicago News.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
SOMEWHAT PATHETIC.
Speeches of stalwart Republican Leaders
at the Late Boston banquet and Their
Milk and Water ComplcxIOn.

Speeches of Stalwart Republican Leaders
at the Late Boston banquet and Their
Miik-and- Water Complexion.
There was something at once comic
and pathetic in the Republican ban
quet which was served up in Boston.
Distinguished Republicans from out
side the State had been invited, but
with remarkable unanimity they all
declined to attend. This threw the
burden of speechmaking upon Senators
Dawes and Hoar, and they improved it
to a most wearisome length. We can
conceive of no more heartless use of a
banquet than to entice several hundred
men to it, and then to turn loose upon
them two such lugubrious orators as
Dawes and Hoar. They both stood up
and said at great length the same
things that they had been saying with
more or less fullness for the past five
or ten years. There was not a ray of
freshness or CLEAN of u new idea in
either speech from beginning to end.
The quality of Mr.. Dawes speech can
be inferred by the following sample
from his Introductory remarks: 1.-THE
atmosphere we are breathing here to-
day is so surcharged with genuine Re-
publicanism that there can be little
need of either tonics or stimulants.
The spirit of the oldcn time is upon us
again. The cause is again, as of old,
paramount, and the individual subor-
dinate. congratulate the Republican
party of Massachusetts, so largely
represented here to-day, upon the har-
mony and earnestness everywhere
manifest-sure precursors of success"
Mr.. Hoar's speech was in the same
line, as the following familiar passage
will show: "The Democratic party
represents and is controlled by the
opinions and purposes as they are to-
day of the men who twenty years ago
thought rebellion, secession and slavery
were right, and the Republican party
represents and is controlled by the
opinions and purposes as they are to-
day of the men who twenty years ago
thought rebellion, secession and slave
ry were wrong" After an hour or
more of this kind of oratory, other
brief speeches were made, and then
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge, with the late
untoward result in Rhode Island in
mind, quoted with depressing effect:
hold it truth with him who sings,
To one clear harp in divers tones
That men may rise on stepping stones
OF their dead selves to higher things.
This confession that the party was
dead was received in silence, and Mr..
Lodge went on to explain that its
death was merely seeming, that it has
suffered disaster chiefly because of the
''petty personal dislike which is shown
towards candidates" Mr.. Lodges
stepping-stone of the party's dead self
is not high principle, but loyalty to the
candidate, no matter what his charac-
ter. He is going to help the party to
rise to "higher things" by re-electing
Governor Ames next fall, and by wag-
ing unrelenting war upon all Inde-
pendents and reformers of whatever
name character. Y. Post.
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
HE TOOK THE BALLS.
Chat Between an Accommodating Land
lord and His GueSt.

Cnat heCW66n bu ACCOMMODATING A6uus
lord and His Guest.
Guest TO landlord) What can you
get me up for dinner, landlordp
Landlord thing you want. How
about some nice fish-balls? n
Guest-Don't care for fish-balls. I'll
take a couple of chops, not too well
done.
Landlord-Well, it's little late for
chops; but l can give You any thing
else. Them fish-balls is nice.
Guest-A small porter-house, with
mushrooms.
Landlord-A bridal couple ate tho
last mushrooms had in the house not
ten minutes ago. I've got some AL
Chicago dressed beefsteak, but, un-
fortunately, it's only on the way. Them
tish-balls are brown on top!
Guest-Veal outlets!
Landlord-The last bit of veal went
to make chicken sal-er-oh! vealp No,
no veal; but I can give you any thing
else. My wife picked that Goldfish her.
self, and them balls are as homeless as
taplOca puulilS. JuuSe VI Ohc ou-
preme Court asked for the recipe only
this evening.
Guest-Got any spring chicken?
Landlord-Tll have some nice ones
for breakfast. But if there's any thing
else you want-nice hot tish-balls, or
Guest-Oh! let me have some liver
and bacon, then.
Landlord-We cont have liver ant
bacon after two o'clock, sir. It's JUS
luck that we've got them tish-balls--
Guest--Bring me some fish-balls!
Landlord-Yes, sir! Tea or coffee
Guest-Coffee!
Landlord-Well, the coffee is all out
guess you'll have to take tea!-Puck
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
FAULTY SCHEME.
Mr.. Blaine's European Tour and Return
Arranged Upon the Supposition That He
Is q Great Man.

Mr.. Blaine's European Tour and Return |
Arranged Upon the SupposItion That He
is o Great Man.
There is a measure of method in the
arrangements for Mr.. Blaine's Eu-
ropean tour that challenges admira-
ton. The fact that it is to be to some
extent an imitation of the Grant trip
of eight years ago in no wise detracts
from its value as an electioneering
scheme, though the signal failure of
the third term enterprise suggests a
doubt as to the availability of foreign
excursions with pyrotechnic accom-
paniments as medium of wheedling
American politicians into questionable
movements.
According to current rumors Senator
Hale will be the companion of the tat
tooed historian, and he will no doubt
serve as sort of advance agent or
business manager of the enterprise.
They will depart some time during the
coming fall and travel through tho va
rious interesting sections of continental
Europe and thence through Japan and
China, timing the return so as to ar
rive in San Francisco just about the
time the Republican National conven-
| ton assemblies. The only departure
from the Grant programme is in the
time of arriving home. 1t is generally
admitted that Grant got back too soon.
In other words, that the period be-
tween the arrival at the Golden Gate
and the call of the roll for balloting in
the convention afforded time for re.
action in public sentiment.
The managers of the Blaine hippo
drome propose to profit by the expcri-
ence of the third-termers. But they
miscalculate the effects of the tour un-
less all signs fail. The Grant trip was
attended by series of ovations that
electrified the world, and when the
party arrived on the return public ex-
citement had been worked up to high
! pitch. The reaction was less the re-
suit of time than it was the impossible
ity OF maintaining the high strain
1 which had been reached. 1t is not
likely that Blaine's tour will be attend
ed with such demonstrations, and
when he returns it will be necessary to
create the enthusiasm that is expected
to boom him through the convention,
aud that will take time. 1t would
seem. therefore, that the Blaine man
ayers have made mistake in depart
ing from the model set by Grants
friends. - Harrisburg Patriot.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
LEAVING BLAINE.

Tho New York "Tribuns" Tacking Away
from the "Masnetic CandidRte" and tho
storms Which Ho Carries with Him.
Mr.. Whitelaw Ried has taken the
trouble to repeat his crafty denial of
knowledge of any letter from himself to
Murat Halstead indicating an inten-
ton to abandon Blaine and favoring
Sherman for the Presidency in 1888.
As the public we'll knows. Mr.. Reid
persists in denying the first story con-
cerning this letter which gave the
name of Murat Halstcad as the re-
ceiver of the letter, which, according
to corrected account of the affair, was
addressed to Mr.. Halstead's partner,
Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati COM
mercial Gazette. Mr.. Halstead made
haste almost with profane heat to deny
that he had received any such letter,
and Mr.. Ried just as promptly declared
that he had not written any such letter
to Mr.. Halstead. But when the COR
rection was made and the name of Mr..
Smith WAS given rs the man TO whom
the fatal letter was addressed, did Dea-
con Richard Smith make haste with
curses and oaths to deny all knowledge
OF it? Not much. He left Cincinnati
on business opportunely to escape be-
ing interviewed.
But Mr.. Reid is not the only one
who is engaged in concealing the
truth about his abandonment of Blaine.
The Chicago Tribune with its usual
maladroitness in such matters, has
taken hand in the game. In its dis
patch purporting to give Mr.. Reds
official denial of the letter it sought to
make it cover the charge that he chad
written letter to either Richard Smith
or Murat Halstcad, of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, abandoning Mr..
Blaine and favorng John Sherman fol
the Presidency in 1888" But the
wording of the New York 1ri6une's
denial precludes its being interpreted
tn cover the accusation of having
written such letter to Mr.. Smith
these are its words: "The editor
of the Tribune knows of no such
letter, and the man who ID
said to have received 1t has already
announced that he never got any sucl
letter. The Tribune expects to sup
port the nominee of the National con
vention." This is simply reiteratior
Of the DENIAL OF the first charge. i
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
WORK ros HIM

A Bright Monkey, Locked up In y Cellar
Who Found Something to DO After All.
''You idle, good-for-nothing fellow!
What! ! lodge you and your monkey
in my stable, give you supper and
breakfast, and then, when 1t comes to
paying-why, you have not as much as
brass farthing!' and Herr Muller's
sharp face grew red with passion.
Poor little Paolo's turned white as
he hugged his only friend, his beloved
Jocko, and stammered out an apology.
He had expected TO, find an, audience
for tho little creatures clever tricks.
but had been disappointedi no one
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
----
FOOD FROM GRAIN.
Interesting Historical Points COncerning
sNt the Use of Bread and Dlscuit.

Interesting Historical Points CONCERNING
lNi the Use of Bread and biscuit.
Bread is an invention of the Greeks
and passed from them to the Romans.
A round disc of bread was for many
centuries the substitute for plates.
After the dinner these plates were dis
tributed among the poor.
The hand-mills were the only known
tools to squeeze flour from grain until
the crusaders copied from the Saracens
the art to let wind mills do the work.
Bread was not cut at meals, nor was
there any meal for it, for it was not
baked in the size or thickness as it is at
present, but in thin, smooth cakes, and
could therefore, be easily broken. This
is the origin of the saying: ITO break
bread with him or her.
Most of the ancient nations ate bis
cults under special conditions; chiefly
in war, whether naval or military,
or on long journeys by sea or
land. To the Greeks they were known
as arton dipuron, that is. "bread twice
put to the fire." while the Romans had
their panis nauticus, or capita. chiefly
used, rs its namc implies, for nautical
purposes.
1t is not little odd that the word
.'bisquet" or "biscuit" embodies the
process by which biscuits were made
from time immemorial to within the
last century, if not, indeed, later. Bis,
twice, and coctus, cooked, shows that
they were twice baked, and although
the double process has now been dis
carded, yet the name is retained. y
Already, in the times of Pliny, the
naturalist, the Gauls made use Of BARN
to render their bread lighter, In the
seventeenth century the doctors in
Paris pronounced this as detrimental to
health, and the use of BARN was pro-
hibited. Out of this arose between
doctors and bakers long and serious
lawsuit which did not lead to any re-
/ suit Fashion here settled the ques-
ton. To-day nobody considers BARN
as unwholesome.
Atwhat period of mans history tho
tightening OF dough by fermentation
was first adopted no one, of course.
knows. 1t is, however, certain that
cakes made OF nothing but meal and
water and then baked are eery much
older. Fragments of unfermcnted
cakes were discovered in the Swiss lake
dwellings, which belong to the neolithio
age, an age dating back far beyond the
received age OF the world. This Is tho
earliest instance of biscuits as yet dis
covered, for biscuits arc merely unfer-
mented bread. - Caicago NeVs,